Sarah Mills: Prime minister should be fixing economic issues rather than offering relief
Prime Minister Mark Carney has unveiled billions in strategic funding to get Canada's economy moving in new directions. ...
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About one Quebec child per day taken to ER for drowning, near-drowning: research
MONTREAL - An average of one child a day goes to the emergency room for a drowning or near-drowning in Quebec during the summer months, new research has found. The study will be officially presented i...
May 26, 2024
As Canada warms, infectious disease risks spread north
It was 15 years ago that Ontario student Justin Wood started feeling sick. A keen soccer player, snowboarder and mountain biker, Wood said he didn't know the cause but he had to "back off from playing...
May 26, 2024
Governments must disaster-proof Canada's hospitals against climate change: experts
OTTAWA - A wall of flames met David Matear when he finally stepped outside of the downtown Fort McMurray hospital, after the final patient was hurried out of the building and into a waiting bus. "You ...
May 25, 2024
Ford thanks Ottawa as minister cites 'deep concerns' over Toronto's decriminalization
OTTAWA - Ontario Premier Doug Ford is thanking the federal government for rejecting Toronto's long-stalled pitch to decriminalize the possession of illegal drugs. The premier expressed that gratitude ...
May 24, 2024
Ottawa willing to add to list of medications covered by pharmacare bill: minister
OTTAWA - Health Minister Mark Holland says the government is open to adding more medications to the list of drugs covered by its proposed pharmacare program. Holland made the comments at a parliamenta...
May 23, 2024
Canada 7th in foreign aid spending, but a fifth goes to refugees inside the country
OTTAWA - While Canada is one of the top contributors to foreign aid among some of the world's richest countries, one-fifth of the spending never leaves Canada's borders. Some 19 per cent of Canada's a...
May 23, 2024
First Nations Health Authority in B.C. investigating cybersecurity incident
The First Nations Health Authority in B.C. is investigating after being hit by a cybersecurity attack. The health authority, which bills itself as the first and only provincial one of its kind in Cana...
May 22, 2024
Saskatoon woman thanks 'guardian angel' paramedics who saved her life
A pair of Saskatoon paramedics saved Nicole Craig's life. The 45-year-old woman was in downtown Saskatoon with a work colleague on April 15, when she suddenly went into cardiac arrest. Her colleague c...
May 21, 2024 Nicole Craig (centre) thanked paramedics Matt McGurk (left) and Mitchell Sparrow for saving her life after she went into cardiac arrest in downtown Saskatoon last month. (Mia Holowaychuk/650 CKOM)
Dying ex-doctor serving life for murder may soon be free after a conditional pardon and 2-year wait
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - On paper, Vince Gilmer was granted freedom more than two years ago. Later this week, he may actually leave prison. The former small-town North Carolina doctor and convicted murder...
May 21, 2024
Trump says he is open to restrictions on contraception before backing away from the statement
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he was open to supporting regulations on contraception and that his campaign would release a policy on the issue "very shortly," comments that he later sa...
May 21, 2024
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